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can scientifically imagine of the Universe a-making, we 

 have no reason to think for a moment of Chaos, if 

 that implies disorder. It is time that the phrase "a 

 fortuitous concourse of atoms" was forgotten, for it 

 never had any reality. Moreover, when we make our 

 first picture we must include m it the promise and 

 potency of "Mind" or "sentience," for there is no 

 possibility of juggling "mind" out of "matter," were 

 it only for the reason that "matter" is only known to 

 us in the mirror of our minds. Mind and Body, psy- 

 chical and physical, psychosis and neurosis, the sub- 

 jective and the objective life are incommensurable 

 aspects of reality. 



There Is something very grand in the conception of 

 a Creator who originated Nature in such a way that 

 it worked out His purpose: an orderly, beautiful, pro- 

 gressive world of life with its climax, so far. In Man, 

 who echoes the creative joy in finding the world 

 "good." The philosophical astronomers have been 

 telling us that the cosmos looks like the expression of 

 a supremely mathematical Mind, but the biologists 

 have also their contribution to make to the vision — a 

 glimpse of a Creator who loves life for Its own sake, 

 and is not unwilling to let a million years go to the fash- 

 ioning of an eagle's pinion. It is not merely that the 

 world of life has evolved, for so have the large classes 

 of sponges and of fungi; the big fact is that the evo- 

 lution has been on the whole integrative and progres- 

 sive, showing from age to age an emergence of finer 

 organisms, with greater fulness and freedom. The 

 largest fact In Organic Evolution Is the growing eman- 

 cipation of the mental aspect of life, for so long sleep- 

 ing and dreaming, but gradually passing from sen- 



